Re: [76attendees] A Net Neutrality comment

Richard,

I believe that that distinction is the difference between a libertarian 
viewpoint and a _militant_ libertarian viewpoint, as Fred mentioned.  ;-)

Tony

Richard Barnes wrote:
> Hey Fred,
> 
> Thanks for this little study.  Note that this doesn't necessarily
> argue for *application* throttling, as much as for *user* throttling.
> The network might want to prevent the bittorrent user from interfering
> with you, but the he can be left free to shut down his own VPN if he
> wants to.
> 
> --Richard
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> wrote:
>> A remark to those who take a militant libertarian view of Net Neutrality,
>> and those of ledbat and tcpm who have difficulty understanding why
>> transports should tune to the knee (just enough of data outstanding, aka
>> cwnd, to maintain the maximum goodput) as opposed to the cliff (the knee
>> plus the maximum depth of the bottleneck queue, at which point throughput
>> has not increased but loss has increased).
>>
>> Saturday night, as I do many nights that I spend at hotels, I ran a ping
>> study to characterize the network. It was obviously massively
>> overprovisioned - it was difficult to register RTT variance in excess of a
>> millisecond trans-pacific between Japan and the US. I did this again last
>> night. The network behavior as measured from my room was equally stable
>> until about 11:58 PM; at that point, someone fired up something huge, my
>> guess being something that uses bittorrent, delay dramatically increased,
>> and my VPN went down within a couple of minutes. When this happens,
>> customers call ISPs and ISPs start throttling applications, because the
>> applications are doing horrible things to the ISPs' customers.
>>
>> The attached are a case in point.
>>
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